Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness. ✨ Charles Cale…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.459
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